If this were to be U.S. policy it would have no effect here in flyover country. Simply put, there are no trains.
On the east coast the Acela Corridor is in fact a much better alternative. Again you must live in a major urban city to have it be of advantage.
Realistically, you can create all the buses and build all the RR's (example train between Pueblo and Ft. Collins) who is going to ride them? Flyover country is not a high population density area. Look at the ridership on the RTD in Denver which is the highest population density in the entire Midwest.
Perhaps hybrid buses, lots of them, could garner a ridership but the charge would have to be subsidized. A vehicle is necessary to get around for anyone that does not have an office 9-5 job and does needs to interact with other people in business.
Personal example, I practiced at several hospitals, there was/is no way to get from one to the other without a vehicle in time to see patients, etc. This is not unusual, anyone in a job that requires mobility is in the same situation.
Of course their ban is only for the peasants… the wise elites will not be included because they are much more important and need to fly their jets. John Kerry agrees.
It was always the women, and above all the young ones, who were the most bigoted adherents of the Party, the swallowers of slogans, the amateur spies and nosers−out of unorthodoxy
